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Umi wa miteita = The sea is watching
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- Summary
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O-Shin, a beautiful young geisha in 19th century Japan, meets a samurai named Fusanosuke, who is on the run for killing a man. She assists him by cutting his hair. Despite the protests of O-Shin's ...
O-Shin, a beautiful young geisha in 19th century Japan, meets a samurai named Fusanosuke, who is on the run for killing a man. She assists him by cutting his hair. Despite the protests of O-Shin's friend, the two fall in love. Eventually he leaves O-Shin, only to return later and reveal that he is engaged. O-Shin, eventually, falls in love again - to Ryosuke, who is also a samurai.
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- Creator
- TriStar Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment (Japan) and Nikkatsu Corporation present a Sea Watches Production Committee production in association with Kurosawa Productions, a Kei Kumai film ; producer, Naoto Sarukawa ; written by Akira Kurosawa ; directed by Kei Kumai
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- Japanese
- Contributors
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- Shimizu, Misa, 1970-
- Tohno, Nagiko
- Nagase, Masatoshi, 1966-
- Sarukawa, Naoto
- Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998
- Kumai, Kei, 1930-2007
- Okuhara, Kazuo
- Inoue, Osamu
- Matsumura, Teizō, 1929-2007
- Yamamoto, Shūgorō, 1903-1967. Smell of an unknown flower
- Yamamoto, Shūgorō, 1903-1967. Before the dew dries
- Tri-Star Pictures
- Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc
- Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha
- Sea Watches Production Committee (Firm)
- Kurosawa Purodakushon
- Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)
- Publication
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- Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2003
- Physical Details
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- 1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- ISBNs
- 1404938699, 9781404938694
- OCLC
- ocm53184052
- Credits
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- Misa Shimizu, Nagiko Tohno, Masatoshi Nagasu, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Renji Ishibashi, Eiji Okuda
- Director of photography, Kazuo Okuhara ; editor, Osamu Inoue ; music, Teizo Matsumura ; costume designer, Kazuko Kurosawa ; production designer, Takeo Kimura
- Originally released as a motion picture in 2002.
- Based on the short stories "The smell of an unknown flower" and "Before the dew dries" by Shugoro Yamamoto.
- DVD, Region 1 encoding, Widescreen (1.85:1) presentation, Dolby Digital.
- Japanese dialogue, English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Thai subtitles.
- Closed-captioned.